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Anders Åslund

Per Anders Åslund (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈânːdɛʂ ˈoːslɵnd];[surname tone?] born 17 February 1952) is a Swedish economist and former Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is also a chairman of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE).

His work focuses on economic transition from centrally planned to market economies. Åslund served as an economic adviser to the governments of Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine and from 2003 was director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Åslund was an advocate of early, comprehensive, and radical economic reforms in Russia and Eastern Europe.[1] He worked at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from 2006 to 2015. In 2013, David Frum wrote that "Anders Aslund at the Peterson Institute is one of the world’s leading experts on the collapse of the planned Soviet economy."[2] From 2010 to 2013 and again in 2022 he contributed to The Moscow Times, an independent English-language newspaper; he is also a long-time contributor to the Kyiv Post.[3]

Anders Aslund lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Anna, and their two children.

Åslund in Sweden

From 1989 to 1994, Åslund worked as a Professor of International Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics; and in 1989 he became the founding director of the Stockholm Institute of East European Economics.

On 22 April 1990 Åslund published a controversial article on Dagens Nyheter, drawing parallels between the collapsing communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the social democratic policies in Sweden.[4] He argued that Sweden had too large a public sector; supported communist dictatorships, such as Cuba, in the Third World; and had excessive state intervention in all areas of life. The ruling Swedish Social Democratic Party opposed the views of Åslund in dozens of articles. In June 1990, Social Democratic Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson voiced public disagreement with Åslund in the Riksdag.[5][6] However, opposition leader Carl Bildt (Moderate Party) defended Åslund.[6][7]

Involvement in Russian economic reform

From November 1991 to January 1994, Åslund worked with Jeffrey Sachs and David Lipton as a senior advisor to the Russian reform government under President Boris Yeltsin and Acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar.[8] He worked also with Deputy Prime Ministers Anatoly Chubais and Boris Fedorov. Åslund summarized his views in his book How Russia Became a Market Economy.[9]

Other work

After his experiences in Russia, Åslund worked as an economic advisor to President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine from 1994 to 1997, and from 1998 to 2004, to President Askar Akayev of Kyrgyzstan. Åslund has also worked substantially with economic policy in the Baltic countries, first as a member of the International Baltic Economic Commission from 1991 to 1993,[10] and later as an informal advisor to Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis from 2009.[11] (Dombrovskis was prime minister until 2014.)

Work in Ukraine

In 2016, Åslund was appointed to the supervisory board of Ukraine's 23rd largest bank, Kredyt Dnipro, owned by Ukrainian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk.[12][13]

From July 2004-January 2005, Åslund co-chaired a Blue Ribbon Commission on a Reform Program for the Next Ukrainian President, sponsored by the United Nations Development Program.[14] From September 2009-February 2010, he co-chaired an Independent Commission of International Experts on Economic Reform for the Ukrainian Government, sponsored by the Swedish and Dutch governments.[15] From May 2014-April 2016, Åslund worked as an Advisor to the Ukrainian Minister of Economy.

From January 2016-August 2020, Åslund was a non-executive director of Bank Credit Dnepr, Ukraine,[16] and from June 2018-September 2020, he was a non-executive director of Ukrzaliznytsia (the Ukrainian state railways), Ukraine. He resigned in September 2020, complaining that "I feel neither wanted by the shareholder nor offered viable working conditions, while the legal liability is mine."[17]

Books

References

  1. ^ Anders Åslund, Post-Communist Economic Revolutions: How Big a Bang? The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, and Westview, 1992, pp. 106
  2. ^ Frum, David (4 April 2013). "What the Eurozone Crisis is all About". The Daily Beast.
  3. ^ "Articles by Anders Åslund". The Moscow Times.
  4. ^ Anders Åslund, "Storstäda i Sverige! (Clean up in Sweden!)", Dagens Nyheter, April 22, 1990
  5. ^ "Riksdagens protokoll 1989/90:139". data.riksdagen.se. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Riksdagens snabbprotokoll 1990/91:131 Torsdagen den 13 juni Protokoll 1990/91:131 - Riksdagen". www.riksdagen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  7. ^ Anders Åslund, "Statsministern och verkligheten (The Prime Minister and the Reality)", Svenska Dagbladet, July 3, 1990.
  8. ^ Nelson, Lynn D. and Irina Y. Kuzes, 1994, Property to the People: The Struggle for Radical Economic Reform in Russia. M.E. Sharp, New York.
  9. ^ Anders Åslund, How Russia Became a Market Economy, Washington, DC: Brookings 1995.
  10. ^ Anders Åslund, How Capitalism Was Built, Second Edition, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  11. ^ Anders Åslund and Valdis Dombrovskis, How Latvia Came through the Financial Crisis, Washington, DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics.
  12. ^ "Экс-глава МВФ вошел в набсовет банка Пинчука". News.finance.ua. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  13. ^ Rachkevych, Mark (February 3, 2016). "Billionaire Pinchuk puts Strauss-Kahn, other big names on bank board". Kyiv Post. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  14. ^ Blue Ribbon Commission proposes new wave of reforms for Ukraine Carnegie Endowment
  15. ^ "Proposals for Ukraine: 2010—Time For Reforms" (PDF). pile.com. 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  16. ^ "Ex-head of IMF Strauss-Kahn, economists Aslund, Saltiel become members of supervisory board of Pinchuk's bank Credit-Dnepr".
  17. ^ Anders Åslund, “This is no way to run a railway,” Kyiv Post, September 26, 2020. https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/anders-aslund-this-is-no-way-to-run-a-railway.html

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